Where did I say you said something derogatory about the Triune God? But, you still worship a false god that is not the Trinity of God the Father, God the Son and God the Spirit. Since the Triune God is fully proven in the Word of God and is what the Church has always taught, then you are just some guy two millennia later denying God's very being. Christians today do not speak contrary to what the Church has always taught, but it is you who speaks contrary to the Christian faith and is why you are unsaved. The test of observing the unsaved is that they cannot accept God's 3 Persons as one being.
"...proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb" (Rev. 22.1).
"the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him" (v.3).
Jesus is the 2nd Person of the Triune Godhead, make no mistake about it! He is uncreated. "They shall see his face" (v.4) is referring to the one substance of the Father and the Son, yet both are mentioned in His Triune Being.
None of the verses you gave said Jesus is the Father, nor the Spirit. You're an unsaved modalist on his way to hell. For example, 2 Cor. 3.17 says Jesus who is now raised up has given the Spirit to indwell God's children.
Jesus is not "God Jr.", nor is the Son the "body of the Spirit". Not at all. Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always existed, and the Spirit is the life of the Father and the Son. Before the foundations of the world, the Father, Son and Spirit held council and agreed in which the Father spoke it, the Son would create and the Spirit would execute and renew creation.
"Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient [even] unto death, yea, the death of the cross. Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven and [things] on earth and [things] under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil. 2.5-11).
“As regards to the Godhead, the Son and the Father are co-equal; but His being the Lord is rewarded Him by God. The Lord Jesus Christ was made Lord only after He emptied Himself. His deity derives from who He is, for His being God is His inherent nature. His being Lord, though, issues out of what He has done. He was exalted and rewarded by God to be the Lord only after He forsook His glory and maintained the perfect role of obedience. As regards Himself, He is God; as regards reward, He is Lord. His Lordship did not exist originally in the Godhead.
The passage in Philippians 2 is most difficult to explain, for it is most controversial besides being most holy. Let's remove our shoes and stand on holy ground as we review the Scripture. It seems as though at the beginning a council was held within the Godhead. God conceived a plan to create the universe. In that plan the Godhead agreed to have authority represented by the Father. But authority cannot exist alone. God must therefore find obedience in the universe. Two living beings were to be created: angels (spirits) and men (living souls). According to His foreknowledge God foresaw the rebellion of the angels and the fall of men; hence He was unable to establish His authority in angels or in the Adamic race. Consequently, within the Godhead perfect accord was reached that authority would be reached by the obedience of the Son. From this come the distinctive operations of God the Father and God the Son. One day God the Son emptied himself, and being born in the likeness of men. He became the symbol of obedience. Inasmuch as rebellion came from the created beings, so obedience must now be established in the created being. Man sinned and rebelled; therefore the authority of God must be erected on man’s obedience. This explains why the Lord came to the world and was made as one of the created men”. (Spiritual Authority, CFP white cover, 47-48, Watchman Nee)
Herein do we see resurrection life. Without the supernatural life of God there can be no resurrection after death. The Lord Jesus could go through death and yet be raised because resident in Him is God’s uncreated life. This life cannot be destroyed: it instead will always emerge into the fullness and glory of resurrection. Jesus poured out His soul to death and committed His spirit (in which was God’s life) back into the hands of God. His death set Him free from soul life and released God’s spiritual life unto greater splendor.
It is difficult indeed to understand why God, upon transmitting His life to us, then requires us to experience co-death with Christ so that His life may be resurrected in us. This is nonetheless God’s law of life. And once possessing God’s life, we then are empowered to periodically go through death and continue to come out alive. By continuously losing our soul life in death, we may continuously gain more abundantly and gloriously of God’s life in resurrection.
God’s aim is to take our soul life through death in company with His Own life in us; whenever His life in us is resurrected in our daily experience our soul also is raised with Him and produces fruit to eternity. This is one of the most profound lessons in spiritual life. The Holy Spirit alone can unfold to us the necessity of death as well as that of resurrection. May the Spirit of revelation make us understand how much our spiritual experience shall suffer if we do not hate our natural life and deliver it to death. Only when our soul accompanied by God’s indwelling life passes through death and resurrection can we bear spiritual fruit and keep it for life eternal. (The Spiritual Man, CFP white cover, Vol. 1, Part 1, 192)
Jesus has His own spirit, and the Holy Spirit has His own spirit. You are not listening to God because your head can't get around the fact that God can be both one and triune. That is the sure sign someone who claims to believe in the God of the Bible all these years is still not saved.
Indeed, no matter how condescending I appear to you, you are not born-again, because you think you can lose your salvation tomorrow, thus you worship a god who is powerless to give eternal life that can never be lost at new birth.
You have also misread the parable of the ten virgins. All ten virgins have oil in their lamps, except 5 of them did not fill up their vessels with extra oil of the Holy Spirit. In other words, they did not prepare themselves, so they will not receive the reward of reigning with Christ in the marriage feast of the 1000 year reign.
Please study these many other reasons why both the 5 wise and 5 unwise virgins are of the same class, being Christians, and only the 5 wise virgins receive rewards.
“Lamp” in the Bible may mean several things: (1) the word of the Lord (Ps. 119.105); (2) the word of prophecy (2 Peter 1.19); and (3) the outward testimony of the Christian (Matt. 5.14-16). It does not say “candle” here since a candle burns its own wax to give light, whereas oil is poured into a lamp from the outside in order for it to shed light. So the outward declaration of the Christian ought to be a going forth to meet the bridegroom. Just as in the breaking of bread, we not only remember the finished work of the Lord but also remember that the day of His coming is near.
Only in two points do the two classes of virgins differ: (1) the wise ones carry oil in their vessels while the foolish do not; and (2) the wise virgins go in to the marriage feast whereas the foolish ones are rejected. Their similarities are many, such as they all (1) are virgins, (2) have lamps (the appearance), (3) they bear light (the conduct which glorifies God), (4) have oil (the Holy Spirit), (5) go forth to meet the bridegroom (waiting), (6) sleep, (7) hear the midnight cry, (8) arise (resurrection), and (9) trim their lamps (prepare oil). Yet however numerous are their similarities and seemingly limited are their differences, the consequences for each group are far, far apart. What care must we therefore exercise! Whatever may be the cause, that will be the effect. Today’s difference will produce tomorrow’s divergence. The glory or shame in the age to come is decided today.
But oil in the vessel means more than the indwelling of the Holy Spirit; it speaks of being filled with the Holy Spirit. The indwelling Holy Spirit is received at the time of regeneration, but the filling of the Holy Spirit comes through continual seeking following the moment of regeneration. Each believer has the Holy Spirit, yet not all have the fullness of the Holy Spirit. A vessel is something other than the lamp. Yet this is not the emphasis here. Since oil is a liquid, it has to be contained in a vessel. God’s will is for us to be filled to the full, not just having oil in the lamp. In order to realize this, neither trimming nor decorating the lamp will be a good way, for God looks for extra oil in the vessel. Yet the believer’s attention is usually drawn to the outward appearance of the lamp. The less oil one has, the more assiduously he takes care of the appearance. Nevertheless, trimming can never be a substitute for the oil.
We imagine that receiving oil once is enough, but God desires us to receive it twice. The second time is different from the first, in that at the first instance God gives freely whereas at the second instance He demands a price to be paid. If anyone refuses to pay the price—denying himself and seeking earnestly—he will not be given the oil again. So let us be alert. People may not be able to detect whether or not we have the oil twice over; and we may indeed get by without any trouble today, but on that future day we will be found out. Are we willing to pay the price? To be filled with the Holy Spirit is the condition for rapture. Just as a balloon filled with helium will ascend heavenward, so will those who are filled with the Holy Spirit be caught up. Let us therefore pay the price in providing oil in the vessel, or else we will be those like the foolish virgins.
Understand that it is not of myself that I know you are unsaved, but that God has revealed it intuitively and thus able to prove it substantially, easily to you, that you have never been born-again to receive eternal life. Your god says never say who is saved or unsaved. The evil spirit in your spirit says don't say Hitler is not unsaved, and for you, you must break bread with rapists and murderers who despise Christ, so you are living a lie in vain. But Christians, we break bread with brothers and sisters in Christ, and don't pretentiously deny who is saved, nor censor ourselves to not obviously state who is unsaved. How silly.
Your accusation against God is false: "God's love alone never saved anyone or else there wouldn't be a need for calvary." It was by the love and grace and mercy of God that His only begotten Son entered into His creation to die on the cross for our sins. The act of calvary is an act of love. Shame on you!
To take up one's cross and follow Jesus has two parts to it. First, is the free-gift of atonement received. Secondly, one must bear their cross daily which is unto rewards. Your problem is it is all or nothing, and you don't see consequence for believers. This, consequently, hardens your heart. Many, in fact, do not see much of the Bible is about overcoming once already saved, not losing salvation. How silly. You need to get a conscience, which only God can give you a new spirit.
It may help you to gain some perspective by realizing very few people are actually saved. God said we shall know them by their fruit, including their actual beliefs. Even though 3 billion souls on earth claim to be "Christians", in fact less than 1% of them are. Of course, this is easily proven on a case by case basis like I have shown you specifically why you are not my brother in Christ. The Bible considers you the unsaved tares trying to look like the saved wheat.
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